[en] Although audiences, publishers and academics in general agree that Nordic Noir exists as a separate generic group, defining its generic traits is significantly more difficult. It would appear that Nordic Noir emerged as a geographically specific subcategory, which leads to the question of the geographical limitations of the genre. Or, in other words, where exactly does this ‘north’ begin for Nordic Noir? A separate streak of positioning issues—dictating the scope of academic disciplines involved in the research—stems from Nordic Noir’s ideological positioning. The questions of ethnicity, culture, gender and race, as well as other diversifying factors in a highly globalized world and an increasingly multicultural society reflect the threatened break-down of a welfare state and its egalitarian democracy and show the world for what it is today. Therefore, studies of identity, otherness and liminality, but also studies of criminal, political and social justice must be part of research into Nordic Noir.